It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the blood stream and could be a potent medicinal weapon… yet there is much we still don’t understand abou...
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May 21, 2018 Leave a comment Turning to extremesA taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the molecular biology of a rather special fungus led one group of researchers to a few surprises…
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Lab Babble
May 8, 2018 Leave a comment Pound of fleshIn light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ Swan can’t help but wonder if we are living in a parallel dystopia
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Pure chemicals company raises finance
A Liverpool based chemical intermediates company has raised £1.5m in equity finance to support the ...
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Construction starts on giant ‘nerve cell’
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Fishy study links seafood to prevention of Parkinson’s
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Spin-out gurus move to new digs
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This isn’t the binary system you’re looking for…
Features
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Time for some probing questions
Biomedical research is heavily dependent on utilising biological and chemical probes to understand the functionality ...
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Rescuing curiosity
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The complex tragedy of deforestation
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It’s not easy being green
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A pocket full of pretty green
Focal Point
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Sneezy season Dandelion
Hay fever season has inspired us to show this excellent image of Traxacum officinale ...
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Science Lite
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Holiday season brings volcanic dreams
For goodness sake – can’t science and engineering give us a holiday in paradise without ...
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At the risk of being an idiot
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On the age-old question of polishing a turd…
Editorial Comments
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Tick-tock, tick-tock
How long, do you think, we will be doing science? It is now impossible to ...
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Cliche and chemical weapons
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A verdant witness
